From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 6 08:27:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AE2994 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:27:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koobs.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-x22f.google.com (mail-pa0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22f]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7BB1F67 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id kl13so1573296pab.34 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:27:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=L+6w7VdmRVqlhPnLbu8cIb1l76kN5pfQ0e+a/tRHTd4=; b=cYkHHRLpkyGs2JTAgL4Swpu4Fme7ZUEyr9taCVDZoDz7691F4Efyqbudq+3NxgvKzN TMQvbebFribNHYW+af19A3GEUQF/bQHUJIRlcPa7KyV4D1y6qvesWP4+b+4RGD7fR5aK v3smJJo09me7JirouT3ZTIjOT11UsdPEbA5AJSb589Hwl0pQwNhpxntx6jbz8amZB80M DSlODwtBg6waOYJWEHFoP/j3HWR3BZUsre9N/MCg9X55p7ihjB5cGLbGjhJpH7qGLFzF ccnzr0lHFQI9P6rnVeIaJHbcZ9qUSLqwA+vwguPEFshAWMYpvIM/44T82aVw9Y65IIUQ oNOQ== X-Received: by 10.66.190.104 with SMTP id gp8mr38964103pac.84.1370507264428; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.7] (ppp59-167-128-11.static.internode.on.net. [59.167.128.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pe9sm7529885pbc.35.2013.06.06.01.27.41 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51B047F0.70005@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:27:28 +1000 From: Kubilay Kocak User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Day Subject: Re: Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases References: <1370500869.74066.YahooMailNeo@web190706.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <0016C68E-672A-4B94-A932-3355819AC52B@dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <0016C68E-672A-4B94-A932-3355819AC52B@dragondata.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Quark , "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: koobs@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:27:44 -0000 On 6/06/2013 6:16 PM, Kevin Day wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2013, at 1:41 AM, Quark wrote: >> thanks Kevin, this is really cool stuff. It had be more exiting had it also been offered via pkgng >> > > Is there much demand for pkgng yet? We aren't using it internally, and so far none of our customers are asking for it. > > I could bring some more boxes online and do pkgng builds too, I was just unclear about demand for it at this stage. > > -- Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I think the value of and demand for pkgng is highly likely to increase and gain traction given supported package sets for it, whether they're official or not. At a minimum, and from the perspective of "being a catalyst for achieving critical mass", it would be helpful. Thanks also for all your hard work and commitment so far :) Koobs